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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1908
Page
4
Fairmont Minnesota reports a farmer near town committed suicide by shotgun amid domestic troubles. The item notes CALUMET Baking Powder won the highest award at the World's Pure Food Exposition in Chicago in 1907.
Sept 18 reports at Yusovoe and European Russias say many miners died and numerous injured when the roof caved at the Veroffsky mine. The collapse halted operations and prompted rescue efforts as authorities assess the tragedy.
At Memorial Hall Hearst asserts Archbold letters show three deposits totaling 29 500 dollars to influence Ohio politics. He claims Democrats aided Rockefeller interests and cites letters from Archbold to Senator Foraker and others about bills aiding foreign corporations.
In Harrington Delaware on September 18 Democratic nominee William J. Bryan accused the United States Steel Corporation of funding the Republican campaign and resisting prosecution. He denounced tariff interests and trust influence while urging voters to oppose private monopolies and demanding action against steel trust influence in politics.
In Crookston Minnesota about ten thousand people attended the dedication of the Red River Valley Agricultural High School building and Stephens hall on the nearby farm. Chairman James J Hill of the Great Northern was the chief guest stressing agricultural training.
Republicans at their New York headquarters review Maryland’s political climate as National Chairman Hitchcock leads a Cincinnati arrival. Officials see Maryland as the only true debatable state in their region with business support for Taft and broad popular appeal potentially eroding a Democratic margin.
The text states that the parties did not intend the marriage to occur until after a Roman Catholic church ceremony. Miss Maloney is now free to marry Samuel Clarkson, an Englishman, with whom she eloped and traveled to England.
Three hundred five cases and 115 deaths from Asiatic cholera were reported in St Petersburg in the last twenty four hours amid faulting municipal response. Officials blame delays in hospital, ambulance, and sanitation measures and fear a spring outbreak may recur. In Manila, 25 cases and 12 deaths were logged in a single day as 100 more inspectors join efforts to curb the disease before the Atlantic fleet arrival.
President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor admitted delaying the January issue of the Federationist to circulate before a district court injunction. The hearing before Examiner Harper covered contempt charges against Gompers Mitchell and Morrison related to the injunction, with evidence showing the order issued December 18, 1907 and the January issue mailed before the decree became effective.
A six and a half inch rain in ten hours flooded streets in Galveston business district. Gusts reached sixty two miles an hour for several minutes, but no damage was reported.
Fire conditions along Lake Superior north shore threaten Grand Marais and Chicago Bay. Sickness and severe food shortages worsen the plight as rescue efforts continue with exhaustion and concern.
In a Knoxville Tennessee pistol duel near Kingsport George Campbell was killed with ten bullet wounds. Percy Campbell escaped injury and arrest.
Helen Maloney daughter of Philadelphia magnate Martin Maloney testified she wed Arthur Osborne under pressure from her parents to marry a titled foreigner. The New York court later annulled the marriage with Justice Gerard noting no consummation and lack of full names or parental details on the ceremony papers.
A Chicago Tribune item notes no advance copies will be released and a quote puzzle about Archie proposing, with the answer promised next Thus day night and not before 12 30 a m.
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